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Discover the best-selling art books and insightful artist biographies at our online bookstore, featuring a curated selection of must-read books about art and artwork. Explore our collection to find the best books to read, from captivating artist biographies to beautifully illustrated artwork books.
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Zapantera Negra: An Artistic Encounter Between Black Panthers and ZapatistasWhat is the role of revolutionary art in times of distress? When Emory Douglas, former Minister of Culture of the Black Panther Party, accepted an invitation from the art collective EDELO and the Rigo 23 to meet with autonomous Indigenous and Zapatista communities in...
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Black Disabled Art History 101Black disabled and Deaf artists have always existed. They were on street corners down South singing the Blues, spray-painting on New York subways, and bringing sign language to the big screen. Today, young Black disabled artists are finding their own way to the stage...
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Aesthetics Volume IIWith the release of Aesthetics Volume II, the Hildebrand Press introduces English readers to a major new work of philosophical aesthetics.Written in the early 1970s during the last years of his life, as if harvesting a lifetime of reflection, Dietrich von Hildebrand's Aesthetics is...
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Inventing the American Flag: How the Stars and Stripes Was Woven from SymbolsA treasure hunt for the hidden meaning of the symbols that appear on America's beloved national flag.The best book on the American flag's origins. . . No one knows the ins and outs of the origins of the flag of the United States as...
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Charming Flowers: Make-a-Masterpiece Adult Grayscale Coloring Book with Color GuidesMake-a-Masterpiece! Enjoy coloring grayscale images in the impressionist style. The coloring pages in this book have been created from paintings. To color them, simply follow the brush strokes and color over the shades of gray for a unique experience that results in your own...
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Charming Landscapes: Make-a-Masterpiece Adult Grayscale Coloring Book with Color GuidesMake-a-Masterpiece! Enjoy coloring grayscale images in the impressionist style. The coloring pages in this book have been created from paintings. To color them, simply follow the brush strokes and color over the shades of gray for a unique experience that results in your own...
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You Can Draw!: Simple Techniques for Realistic DrawingsArtist and art instructor Leonardo Pereznieto's realistic surfaces and textures--and his popular instructional YouTube videos on how to recreate them--have earned him millions of views and a devoted fan base. Now, for the first time, this international sensation brings his amazing skills to the...
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Cartoon Faces: How to Draw Heads, Features & ExpressionsMake a face--a funny face! The personality of a cartoon character begins with the face: the head, the features, the expressions. Get that right and you can create a memorable personality. Bestselling how-to-draw author Christopher Hart presents the ultimate tutorial on the topic in...
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1668: The Year of the Animal in FrancePeter Sahlins's brilliant new book reveals the remarkable and understudied "animal moment" in and around 1668 in which authors (including La Fontaine, whose Fables appeared in that year), anatomists, painters, sculptors, and especially the young Louis XIV turned their attention to nonhuman beings. At...
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The Alamo and Beyond: A Collector's JourneyNew printing includes a new introduction by Texas History Legend Stephen L. Hardin. When Phil Collins was a kid growing up in a London suburb, he would often watch an amazing show on his family television. There, in black and white, was Fess Parker...
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Soulcalibur: New Legends of Project SoulTranscending history and the world, a tale of souls and swords, eternally retold SoulCalibur: New Legends of Project Soul collects the artwork of the ultimate weapons-based fighting game -- SoulCalibur V. Included are character designs, rough concepts, storyboards, creator commentary, character relationship charts, exclusive...
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Dot To Dot Cute Cats: Adorable Anti-Stress Images and Scenes to Complete and ColourDot To Dot Cute Cats Adorable Anti-Stress Images and Scenes to Complete and Colour If you love cats you'll love this adorable dot-to-dot book. Challenging images of the cutest cats ever to complete yourself and colour in if you wish. From pretty Persians and...
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Ibrahim El-Salahi: A Sudanese Artist in OxfordIbrahim El-Salahi (b.1930 in Omdurman, Sudan) is a pioneer of African and Arab Modernism and one of the most influential figures in Sudanese art today. His paintings, drawings and book illustrations draw from a vivid imagination rooted in the traditions of his homeland, which...
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Bill Viola / Michelangelo: Life, Death, RebirthAt first glance, there may appear to be more to separate Michelangelo (1475-1564) and Bill Viola (born 1951) than to unite them: one, the great master of the Italian Renaissance; the other, the creator of state-of-the-art immersive sound and video installations. And yet, when...
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Could Have, Would Have, Should Have: Inside the World of the Art CollectorWhat does it take to be a serious art collector? What drives someone to go after a particular work, regardless of the cost? Tiqui Atencio has been collecting since she was 18 years old; decades later, she is one of the most prominent collectors...
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Wormwood Star: The Magickal Life of Marjorie Cameron2020 Edition features fascinating new revelations, as well as over a dozen rare and new imagesIn the first-ever biography written about her, Wormwood Star traces the extraordinary life of the enigmatic artist Marjorie Cameron, one of the most fascinating figures to emerge from the...
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Adding the Blue: Paintings by Chrissie Hynde'I always thought I would get into painting, but I got waylaid by rock 'n' roll. Finally, I thought, "Now's the time." As soon as I was in a situation where I could be alone and paint without any interruptions, I just couldn't stop.'...
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PicturescapeWhen a young boy visits the local art gallery, he discovers several splendid pieces of art. As he examines each one, the boy is whisked off to a different location. When the boy finally exits the exhibition, he has taken a wild globe-trotting adventure...
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Chevrolet Bel AirIn the tradition of her landmark coffee-table book Roadside America: The Automobile and the American Dream, renowned automotive visionary and award-winning photographer Lucinda Lewis wows lovers of classic automobiles and popular culture with her photographic tribute to one of the world's most iconic automobiles--the...
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Richard F. Lack Catalogue Raisonne: 1943-1998RICHARD F. LACK (1928-2009) was one of the most important and distinguished artists of the last half of the twentieth century. Over the span of sixty-three years he completed more than 1,300 paintings, drawings, sketches, studies, etchings, woodcuts, and watercolors. Early in his career...
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